The Upper Cut: Bill Clinton Just Screwed His Most Recent Victim… This One Isn’t Going Away

It is increasingly difficult to describe what former President Bill Clinton has done to his wife’s presidential aspirations without paraphrasing Donald Trump.

In a word, Hillary Clinton has once again been schlonged.

The former president has a history of putting the former secretary of state in difficult positions. But this time, perhaps at his urging and certainly with the consent of senior campaign staff, Hillary has done it to herself.

In the latest indication of just how out of touch she and her staff are, Hillary brought Bill to the forefront of her campaign recently, grossly miscalculating his effect on the race. Already beset with an FBI investigation into her private email server and an American public that considers her roughly as trustworthy as Kylo Ren, Hillary may have just let her husband drive the final nail into her campaign’s coffin.

The Clinton campaign made two key errors, both apparently based on its inability to realize that a) the world has changed significantly in 20 years, and b) the media is not shaping the narrative in this campaign the way they usually do.

In 1998, rumors of a consensual affair between Bill Clinton and then-White House intern Monica Lewinsky were big news, but they weren’t the career-killers (obviously) that they would have been 15 or 20 years later. Since then, the left has insisted that anyone who claims to be a victim of sexual assault must be believed — a concept with which Hillary herself agreed during an unguarded moment on the campaign trail.

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But that’s not, of course, what Hillary has done during her husband’s political career. She has, instead, gone on the offensive, attacking her husband’s accusers and labeling them “bimbos,” hiring private investigators to dig up dirt on them, and basically doing her best to ruin their lives.

Not very PC of her.

Worse, by bringing Bill into the campaign, Hillary has managed to dredge up all of that sexual misconduct baggage at the same time. His affair with Lewinsky was well-vetted, but there many, many other women — Paula Jones, Kathleen Willey, Juanita Broaddrick, Gennifer Flowers — whose claims never received the same public attention.

Public awareness of sexual misconduct being what it is in 2016, these women, and the many others like them who have claimed sexual misconduct on the part of the president since 1969, may finally get to tell their stories to a more sympathetic mainstream media.

Many Democrat voters under the age of 30 or so may have been only peripherally aware of the Lewinsky scandal, if at all. Many of the names of other Bill Clinton accusers — and there may literally be dozens — were probably completely unknown to them.

Not anymore. That may help explain why Hillary’s poll numbers with women are suddenly tanking.

On his part, Bill Clinton has been no help. Asked about whether his past misdeeds are “fair game” in the campaign, as Donald Trump has argued, the former president basically punted.

“The Republicans have to decide who they want to nominate,” he somewhat cryptically replied.

Was he seriously that unprepared for such an obvious question? Is he going to reveal whether he thinks his sexual misconduct is fair game once the GOP has its candidate in place? Does he really think that answering that question closer to the general election is going to be more helpful to his wife than getting it out of the way now?

That the question even came up is a testament to the fact the Clinton campaign cannot simply ignore the mainstream media as it prefers to. Left to their own devices, the media probably would give Bill Clinton a pass for his behavior and toss in one for Hillary as well for working to cover it up, no matter how onerous they might find that to be.

But the media isn’t being left to their own devices this election cycle. They are dancing to the tune of a master piper named Donald Trump.

Trump brings up the subjects the Democrats — and thus, the media — don’t want to discuss. He forces them to cover those subjects, or at least mention them from time to time, which is far more than they would do otherwise.

Now all those under-30 voters are becoming much more familiar with Bill Clinton than they used to be. And many of them are finding that they don’t like him very much.

Once again, Hillary Clinton has been schlonged. She can’t defend her husband without violating the liberal tenants of political correctness, and she can’t pull him back off the trail without tacitly admitting to the truth of the accusations against him, at least in part.

It’s almost enough to make you feel sorry for her.

Almost.

George Upper is the managing editor of Conservative Tribune. His weekly column, “The Upper Cut,” appears each Tuesday morning. In addition to sharing it on social media, you can also connect with him on Facebook or on Twitter @georgeupper.

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